Thursday, February 20, 2014

Songs now available for download on Bandcamp


You can now listen to or download for free all songs from my first 4 albums of original songs on the website Bandcamp by  clicking this link to dansullivan2 or the link to "Seven Careless Angels" above. 

The album titles are "Dan Sullivan,"  "Immigrant Girl," "Sparkplug Bill's Last Run" and "Seven Careless Angels."   I'm also working on my next collection of songs, tentatively titled "Criminal Eyes,"  which should be up by April 2014.   

"Seven Careless Angels" is also still available on Reverbnation, which can be accessed in the upper right-hand corner of this blog.  

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

When she finally gets to dance




© 2914 Dan Sullivan

As a child she watched Fred Astaire 
Movies  on TV
She would dance with him every night 
But only in her dreams
But dreams are as real as the love you feel
When you’re only 9 years old

When she finally gets to dance
I hope he sweeps her off of her feet
I hope he spins her ‘round the ol’ dance floor
And makes her life complete
When she finally gets to dance

Later on she learned that life can be 
Sometimes cruel and mean
At the prom she danced the night away
But only in her dreams
‘Cause dreams are as real as the love you feel
When you’re almost seventeen

When she finally gets to dance
I hope he sweeps her off of her feet
I hope he spins her ‘round the ol’ dance floor
And makes her life complete
When she finally gets to dance

As the years rolled by their weight has left
Scars that were not there 
When she was only 9 years old
And dreamt of Fred Astaire
But dreams are as real as the love you feel
When you’re pushing thirty-four

When she finally gets to dance
I hope he sweeps her off of her feet
I hope he spins her ‘round the ol’ dance floor
And makes her life complete

When she finally gets to dance

Friday, February 7, 2014

I Get Lonely Too





© 2014 Dan Sullivan
            
            I know I’m not pretty
            I was born like this
I’m not the kind of girl
Men long to kiss
But I’ve got feelings
Just like you
Don’t stare at me that way 
I get lonely too

I may  not be smart
Not the way that you are
But sometimes I still shine 
As bright as any  star
And sometimes I  wish
You could stand in my shoes
You wouldn’t stare at me that way
If you were lonely too

Now I don’t mind the rain
It washes things clean
And I don’t have to worry
It might wash away my dreams

            I know I’m not pretty
            I was born like this
I’m not the kind of girl
Men long to kiss
But I’ve got feelings
Just like you
Don’t stare at me that way 
I get lonely too



Wednesday, February 5, 2014

So, Yeah

© 2014 Dan Sullivan

So yeah
I don’t have much to say
But life is good and I’m okay
It’s good to see you how’s your day
So yeah
So yeah

So yeah 
Did you see Bill with Kate
So yeah that girl is such a fake
If I was her I’d lose some weight
So yeah
So yeah

Everything’s amazing
Everything I see
And you’re amazing too
And so are we 

So yeah
I really like your dress
You’ll always be my  BFF
And god my  room is  such a mess
So yeah
So yeah 

So yeah
I think I’ll go outside 
So yeah I’ll see what I can find
Or else I’ll find a place to hide
So yeah
So yeah





Sunday, January 19, 2014

38 Nooses



38 Nooses
©Dan Sullivan 2014

38 Nooses swinging in the wind
The hangman checks his watch again
A few clouds drifting across the sky
And 38 Dakotas  waiting to die

Soldiers torn  by lead and steel
Ghosts departing  the battlefield
Into the smoke they disappear
Just as if they were never here

Husbands, wives, sons and daughters
Some were spared and some were slaughtered
The news spread like a prarie fire
Riding east on the telegraph wire

The thunder dies and all is still
Except for the creaking of the wheels
As ambulance wagons carry away
Ten thousand dead Blue and Grey

Justice  mixed in the blood of revenge
Weighed on the scale against the dead
The prarieland  is vast and cold
No one  knows the secrets it holds

Can you feel that December wind
It’s grey as shame and cold as sin
From the Land of Lakes the cold wind blows
All the way to Cashtown Road

38 Nooses swinging in the wind
The hangman checks his watch again
In the distance a coyote calls
And suddenly the  trap doors  fall

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Refugee


REFUGEE
© Dan Sullivan 2013

I am just a Refugee
I have no place to rest
I’m hungry and  I’m tired now
I have but one request

Won’t someone spare a Refugee
Some water and some bread
And perhaps a place upon the  floor
To lay my weary head

The fever  took my mother
I have no family
I’m lost and forgotten
There’s no one left for me

No vagabond am I 
I  did not choose this fate
To stand outside the city walls
Begging at the gate

I am just a Refugee
I have no place to rest
I’m hungry and I’m tired now
I have but one request

Won’t someone spare a Refugee
Some water and some bread
And perhaps a place upon the  floor
To lay my weary head




Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Can We Give It One More Try?





© 2014 Dan Sullivan


It’s the New Year
It’s a brand new start,
I’m alone here
With my old broken heart

I need to feel
Your sweet heart next to mine
Is there a chance
We can give it one more try?

I know they say
Everything will heal in time
But have they ever
Had a broken heart like mine ?

I was a fool
I never meant to make you cry
Is there a chance
We can give it one more try?

Once I had your love but I let it slip away
Now I'm missing you more and more each day

It’s the New Year
It’s a brand new start,
I’m alone here
With my old broken heart

I need to feel
Your sweet heart next to mine
Is there a chance
We can give it one more try?

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

When This Burden Is Lifted From Me

©Dan Sullivan 2014

Like a leaf I am blown
Back and forth, to and fro
Helplessly adrift on the breeze
But Angels will rejoice 
And they’ll sing in one voice
When this burden is lifted from me 

I am trapped in this life
Between darkness and light
Where temptation won’t let me be
But Angels will rejoice
And they’ll sing in one voice
When this burden is lifted from me

In this world I stumble and fall into sin
I repent then I fall once again
Sometimes I fall to my knees in prayer
Sometimes my weakness is too much to bear

I am trapped in this life
Between darkness and light
Where temptation won’t let me be
But Angels will rejoice
And they’ll sing in one voice
When this burden is lifted from me